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Baja california5/18/2023 The Intercalifornia Railroad, a branch of the Southern Pacific, was built and Levees and dikes were painstakingly reinforced and the planting of cotton, In 1904 Mexican President Porfirio DiazĪuthorized Mexican canals to divert more water to the Mexican side of the border.Ī big flood occurred in 1906 as the waters of the Colorado River went over theirīanks. The founding date of Mexicali is Maand Manuel Vizcarra wasĮlected the town’s first Civil Authority. Leased land for cotton and the workers stayed to cultivate their ensuing crops. The irrigation projects for the Colorado River Land Company, an AmericanĬompany which owned practically all of the land in the valley. Many of the earliest settlers came to work on Mexi-cali), and the names stuck, La Laguna del Alamo to be forever calledĪfter the Imperial Canal was finished in 1902, Mexicali began to grow as Tinkered with the words California/Mexico, switched some syllables around andĬame up with names for the towns on opposite sides of the border (Cal-exico and Positive image for a difficult and desolate area. “Limpy” Holt, was theįirst to coin California’s “Imperial Valley” name, thinking it projected a more One of the American agricultural pioneers, C. Over 100 years the area was claimed by no one. But the desert was forbidding and for well Going further back, it is known that Juan Bautista de Anza camped near the Today’s Mexicali was earlier called La Laguna del Alamo, first settled inġ898 by former miners who left the dwindling pickings at El Alamo near Ensenada The wholeĪrea became a fertile agricultural center. Early in the 20th century Americans beganīuilding canals to divert water west, creating the vast Imperial Valley. Not farĪway, however, was the Colorado River. Mexicali, the state of Baja California’s capital and second largest city, wasĪ hot (120+ degree days) barren desert with dust storms and desolation.
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